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...battle was a few seconds of terror, hours of agonized waiting. While his comrades stormed the building near the Olympic Hotel in Mogadishu to try to snatch Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, Rodriguez and the rest of his squad swarmed down ropes from a helicopter and began a security patrol through a nearby street. "It was bright daylight; there were windows and doors all around us, and you can't watch all of them all the time," said Rodriguez. "All of a sudden the Somalis just opened up on us, small arms and grenades. There was shooting from all directions...
...addition, Harvard's patrol officers have reached a stalemate in tense negotiations with the University over a new contract. That means the officers Murphy supervises haven't had a raise in more than a year. And that, it seems, has made them extremely resentful of the perks Murphy enjoys from Cavalier...
Racist? "Racist?" you shout. "We were moved by the pictures of starving humanity. We went to help them. And now here's the Crimson P.C. Patrol calling us racist...
...training, are landscaped with hollyhocks and palm trees. And there is no target practice. "We don't know what weapons we'll have in Jericho," says Lieut. Colonel Mohamed Youssef Al Sadi, commander of a 20-man unit drawn from the Badr Brigade, which is expected to patrol Jericho. "We have forgotten our Kalashnikovs." They have been trained, however, to handle American M-16s. Whether the Israelis will allow the men of the P.L.O. to carry them is still undecided...
Getting the word out is half the battle,officers say, because the department oftencautions patrol officers against speaking to thepress. Because of this warning, officers say,members of the Harvard community often do not knowabout the dangerous, difficult work the officersdo...